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Baby – I’m Taking you Around the World!
“Write a child-care manual for your society. Give Dr. Spock type advice about child care.” You might be rather confused as to what the above title might suggest. Well, it is an actual term paper assignment handed out by Judy S. DeLoache when she taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DeLoache, whose primary area of research is early cognitive development, asked her upper level undergraduate students to pick a traditional non-Western society and share their research about child caring beliefs and practices in that particular society.
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Assessing Propensity and Satisfaction as Predictors of Trust in Teamwork
My name is Nicole Thompson from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. The current study examines individuals’ propensities to and satisfactions in trust decisions when engaged in teamwork across multiple performance cycles. Findings showed satisfaction captured more variance in trust than propensity across all cycles. Poster Session II - Board: II- 076 Friday, May 27, 2011, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Columbia Hall Nicole J. Thompson Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Sarah F. Allgood Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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Reflecting on Behavior: Giacomo Rizzolatti Gives a Tour of the Mirror Mechanism
In his keynote address at the APS 23rd Annual Convention, Giacomo Rizzolatti of the Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, gave a brief history of the mirror mechanism. In general terms, the neurons that form the basis of this mechanism fire when a person executes an action as well as when he or she perceives it. If anyone is qualified to describe the evolution of this field of study, it's Rizzolatti, whose laboratory discovered the connection in the late 1990s while studying monkeys. To demonstrate the mechanism in action, Rizzolatti played a video of one of his laboratory's first mirror neuron studies.
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Undergraduate Psychology Courses Preferred by Graduate Programs
My name is Timothy Lawson from College of Mount St. Joseph and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. To obtain recent information useful for advising and curriculum planning, we examined the undergraduate course preferences of all U.S. psychology graduate programs. PsyD programs’ preferences were more likely than PhD programs to reflect national undergraduate curriculum guidelines. Important differences also emerged among various subdisciplines (e.g., clinical/counseling versus educational/school). Teaching Institute Poster Session - Board: - 006 Thursday, May 26, 2011, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Gunston Timothy J. Lawson College of Mount St. Joseph Debra L.
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Do Graduate Students Really Think Straight About Weird Things?
I'm Sean Hughes from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Students come to the study of psychology equipped with a range of misconceptions. Unless they are directly targeted for correction, students often leave with many of these erroneous beliefs intact. We tested 550 graduate psychology students to see if they could distinguish psychological fact from fiction.
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Leading Researchers Discuss Current Directions in Schizophrenia Research
Today, five distinguished researchers came together to discuss the latest research on schizophrenia, a debilitating mental disorder that affects millions of people. If there’s one thing that all five can agree on it’s that schizophrenia research has come a long way. According to Robin Cautin, a psychological scientist from Manhattanville College who provided a brief history of schizophrenia research, most research conducted in the early twentieth century was based on trial and error. Cautin discussed the work of psychologist David Shakow, who revolutionized clinical research on schizophrenia.
